People eating food they haven't paid for....

[maddiemookins16mum]

....It just really bugs me. To the point of utter revulsion.
In a supermarket, grown adults opening a pack of 4 pork pies and happily munching their way around the shop, only to toss the empty pack to be scanned as their shopping goes through. Why do people do that, have you ever, and why??? (DD had to wait until the car for her gingerbreadman biscuit from Waitrose).

[MissHooliesCardigan]

Laquila I completely agree. There is so much talk on this thread of people stuffing their faces, noshing, chomping, gorging, shovelling food in their gobs, munching, gobbling, hoovering and wolfing. Nobody just eats. People 'hiding behind a smokescreen of shame' FFS
I do understand that some people don't like this but does eating in a supermarket really deserve the venom and vitriol that people on this thread are giving it? Does it really warrant the threats of the end of civilisation?
We're not talking about kicking puppies or kittens or taking a dump in the middle of a high street or openly masturbating on a crowded bus. It's just eating. Some people on this thread really do need to get a bit of perspective and a life

[MypocketsarelikeNarnia]

I still think 'this is everything that is wrong with our country' wins the thread.

[hopetobehappy]

What about people who have to eat at their desk at work. Highly offensive stuff.

[DigestiveMuncher]

I recently ran into Tesco's with my DD grabbed a packet of nappies and wipes and ran with her to the baby changing to change a very disgusting nappy she has a bowel condition I then walked around the store with the open nappies and wipes until I reached the checkout and paid I personally thought it would be better then other shoppers smelling her shitty nappy? I am also one of these mums that gives their child something to "munch, scoff" whilst doing my weekly shop before paying my DD doesn't like the manhandled fruit they offer for free. In fact she doesn't like a lot of foods due to her not being much of an oral feeder at all.

And my FIL is the terrible man that opens a pack of pork pies and eats one walking round before paying tut-tut let's hang him for it although he doesn't touch the trolley with his "greasy" fingers after he wipes it on a tissue he took into the store with him.

I'll also add he was the head of security at our local Tesco's a few years back and knows all the staff.. he also stops to talk to them whilst "scoffing" a pork pie. None have ever said anything to him other than jokingly asking him if he was enjoying that...

Sorry. I don't have any Waitrose stories to tell I'm obviously too common to shop there. Jesus Christ OP you might want to pull that silver spoon out a tad I think you've shoved it too far up their

[RhodaBull]

The nappy situation is absolutely understandable. Walking round eating a pork pie... nah. And wiping hands on a tissue is not going to get rid of the greasy fingers. None have ever said anything to him other than jokingly asking him if he was enjoying that... Er, or maybe they're all screwing their noses up inwardly and thinking, "Oh, no, there's that greeby old security guy scoffing pork pies again."

[wowowowow]

Haha ex head of security at Tesco's and obviously thinks this gives him the green light to behave like a chav. Some people have absolutely no pride in themselves.

[liz70]

How the heck has this thread reached nearly a thousand posts?

FTR, it's not something I've ever done myself, nor would do. If I were really hungry I would either use the cafe if there were one, or buy a sandwich and sit down on a bench or in the car 🚗 to eat it. I really don't like walking 🚶 around eating 🍴.

That said, I really can't get worked up about anyone else doing it though. I doubt I'd even notice it, tbh. I usually shop online anyway, but on the few occasions we visit supermarkets I'm too busy doing my own shopping to worry about what other people are doing.

[DigestiveMuncher]

To behave like a chav I hardly think walking round a supermarket eating is behaving like a chav Ffs.

And no definitely not screwing their noses up inwardly they are obviously not up their own arses as half of MN

You can all sit behind your computer screens or phones and judge other people's lives, and how they choose to live it or more suitably for this post. How they choose to behave in a fucking supermarket that's entirely up to you lot but I know personally I couldn't give a crap what any of you think. I know I am definitely not a chav and I know my FIL is definitely not one either. In fact he's a very respectable man who has a VERY good job a very nice house/car and earns a Very good wage and probably has more of a personality then half of the stuck up bastards on this post, but if that means he's a chav then so be lol if he chooses to eat a pork pie walking round the supermarket then that's his choice nobody else's it has absolutely fuck all to do with other people. He pays for them & that's all that matters.

As for the greasy hands holding onto a trolley.. I'm sure people have touched a lot worse and then gone to touch a trolley so there's a thought eh?

[DeputyPecksBentBeak]

It's honestly not something I can't get worked up about. Never done it myself, though wouldn't rule it out. But my choices aren't other people's choices and it would be a bit bonkers to expect others to live like me and then find them rude and/or disgusting when they don't.

[ShimmyShimmyYa]

the point is not vulgarity or otherwise- the point is that you haven't paid for the damn food! it's the principle and you're passing it on to your kids. Mine are fastidious about not eating the food/sweets(!) in their hands until paid for and I don't think that's a huge achievement on my part.
I'm thinking the "e" word here: entitled!

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

"RhodaBull

jojo2916 - I know people having chemo, I know widows, and I've had both parents terminally in a hospice. I wouldn't dream of scoffing food in a supermarket and neither would they. Because we are all people with STANDARDS and MANNERS. Whatever your circumstances, these do not change."

Exactly. It is about standards and manners. You would think people who are ill are people who would put their normal standards to one side, just. Evausevthey ate ill. Or at least that us the "argument@ being put forward by some posters, here. It is totally illogical.

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

Sorry...

...just because they are ill.

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

Corrected version:

Exactly. It is about standards and manners. You would think people who are ill are people who put their normal standards to one side, just because they are ill. Or at least that is the "argument" being put forward by some posters, here. It is totally illogical.

[shovetheholly]

The word "chav" is way more offensive than someone eating in the supermarket.

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

"IceRoadDucker

I've opened and drank Lucozade or the like when I had a hypo mid-shop. If anybody judges me for it, they're a cunt."

...and drunk Lucozade...

[ChishandFips33]

I don't get this either

If I knew my child liked to munch on something during the shop I'd take something with me

Last minute pop ins and a hungry child is different to them seeing something and 'wanting' it (imo)

Adults surely could wait unless it's a medical reason

Can't get worked up over it though

[PoppyBirdOnAWire]

It seems it is mainly the posters who condone this behaviour in supermarkets, who are having to resort to the use of pretty revolting language.
Interesting. What was that about "chavs"?

[DigestiveMuncher]

I can understand people have their own opinions on stuff like this but to insult someone who you do not know by calling them a chav or vile or any of the other words being used is disgusting in its own way. These are people you have no clue about.
It's laughable.

[DigestiveMuncher]

Poppy I didn't realise swearing 3 times unless you count crap oh which you probably do oh and FFS.. turned someone into a chav?
I'm probably going to have to google the definition of a chav as I clearly don't know as much about them as you do?

[ShimmyShimmyYa]

to be fair she said the behaviour was chavvy, rather than the person.
I get a bit loud when I'm drunk and would consider that chavvy behaviour, though i don't believe i'm a chav!
i get your point that those words are highly charged though, so would steer clear of using them- especially on mn where you'll soon get pulled up! I'll probably think them though.
To me, the word chav means inconsiderate, antisocial and can as easily be applied to a reckless, speeding sports car driver as someone with less money. sorry, bit of a digression!

[Mummyoflittledragon]

Ohio really are a charmer poppy "just because they're ill".

What an ignoramus you are. You clearly have no clue about chronic illness.

[mathanxiety]

...the point is not vulgarity or otherwise- the point is that you haven't paid for the damn food! it's the principle and you're passing it on to your kids.

And that matters to you ..... why?

[BabyGanoush]

It's a class thing...

[mycatwantstokillme1]

I went into a supermarket last night and saw a man buying stuff on the checkout next to me - he held up an empty wrapper of something (and I actually think it was a pasty or pie by the look of it!) and said 'I've already eaten it'. Cashier said fine, thanks, and tapped it in and I think he put it in his bag. No animals were harmed during this interaction. It made me think of this thread and I laughed, they probably thought I was mad!